Nuns on the Bus to begin 3rd national tour

The Washington-based NETWORK lobbying group begins its third national tour on Sept. 17 and will
visit 10 states through Oct. 17.

“We will call on ‘We the People’ to stand up against big money and inequality in the upcoming
November election,” Sister Simone Campbell, NETWORK executive director, wrote in an email sent to
supporters today.

States on the
2014
tour are Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, North
Carolina and West Virginia.

The Catholic group plans to spend two to four days in each state “as local nuns stand together
with our spirit-filled network of activists, determined to lift up concern for the common good and
hold candidates accountable to their communities,” the email said.

The Nuns on the Bus first took to the road in 2012 to protest budget cuts proposed by Republican
U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, who ran for vice-president that year. Last year, the sisters
toured to call for changes to immigration laws.

NETWORK refers to itself as a social justice lobby and seeks to increase voter turnout and
encourage candidates to “commit to policies that benefit the 100 percent,” according to its web
site.

Among issues it supports are closing the gap between the rich and poor, raising working-class
wages, universal health care, Medicaid expansion, immigrant rights and nonviolent solutions to
conflict.